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Advice Resolutions' evidence in a discrimination and professional negligence case contributes to eminent Solicitor being ‘struck off’ from practising.

Initially, our client sought our assistance in a disability discrimination case against a college who failed to make reasonable adjustments in a course they undertook. The Solicitor who was instructed to take our client’s case failed to meet mandatory court filing time-scales, which led to our client’s case having a loss of chance to litigate against the college. The solicitor was clearly in breach of their own Solicitor Code of Practice under their regulatory rules. Once this happens, the downside is that the college probably has not learned from their discriminatory ways, could go on to discriminate against other Black people, with disabilities, a person of colour, and of the global majority, although the college admitted the breach of the Equality Act 2010, s20 not to have made reasonable adjustments. As a public authority, this college has breached the equalities legislation and the compensation, unlimited,  that could have been made available to our client had to sadly be abandoned.   It is cases like this that cause discrimination on race and disability (the ethnic penalty) to go unchallenged whether deliberately or not.

Our client had not taken part in the regulatory action, but their experiences along with several other clients who received the same fate at the hands of the solicitor, might see it that justice prevailed on that day. Although the Solicitor was fined, but not an extraordinary amount of money, the striking off has sent shock waves through the legal community to be on their guard about practising their craft in a competent environment. This Solicitor ruined the public trust, acted with negligence, lack of honesty, and betrayal, and brought the profession into disrepute.

We have had cases we have presented to the Police on false Statements of Truth by Solicitors in the legal profession. Our professional experience is that the Police view these referrals to them as an administrative expedition.  The regulatory guidance is that the Attorney General can investigate cases of perjury and contempt, but their involvement is said to be reserved for rare circumstances where the wider public interest requires it.  What could be more pressing and of public interest than safeguarding all legal rights?

We successfully exposed rogue Solicitors in a Scottish firm of Solicitors in criminal matter, settled this in which our client had not received the mandatory paperwork for client care and an agreement leading to the Solicitor avoiding investigation by settling financially.

These cases are profound and strikes a cord in the legal community that will, it is believed, lead to changes in a Solicitor’s humanly possible capacity to take cases and manage them efficiently and effectively. The financial losses can be harrowing.